Donald Beyer’s disclosed stock trades — and what copying them returned

Donald Beyer (House) has disclosed 516 stock trades under the STOCK Act, from Dec 14, 2019 to Apr 1, 2022286 buys and 230 sells, read straight from the official filings. The median gap between a trade and the public finding out was 18 days — which is why every number below starts at the disclosure date, the earliest day anyone could actually have copied a trade.

What copying every disclosed buy would have returned

Our engine bought at the first opening price after each of Donald Beyer’s disclosed purchases became public, held until the matching sale was disclosed, and marked the book against simply holding the S&P 500 over the same window (Dec 16, 2019Aug 11, 2026). Fees on, position sizes equal — a filing never discloses the real amount, only a band.

Copy-return, total+233.3%
S&P 500 over the same window+166.1%
Difference+67.2%
Annualized over 6.7 years+19.8% vs +15.8% +4.0% a year against the index
Deepest fall along the way-32.1%
Positions that closed ahead43%
Disclosed buys / actually copied286 / 266

Read the fill count before the return: a figure built on a handful of copied positions is an anecdote, whatever it says. And a copy-return is not Donald Beyer’s own return — the disclosure lag means a copier never got their entry price.

Most-traded tickers

NEE (19) · DAIUF (17) · EL (17) · FANUF (16) · NVS (16) · AAPL (16) · TJX (16) · MSFT (16) · MSCI (15) · VZ (15)

Recent filings

The latest 50 disclosed trades, newest filing first. Both dates are shown because the gap between them is the whole story.

TickerTypeTradedDisclosedLagAmount band
DAIUFSellMar 1, 2022Apr 1, 202231d$1,001 - $15,000
NEESellMar 7, 2022Apr 1, 202225d$1,001 - $15,000
FANUFSellMar 1, 2022Apr 1, 202231d$1,001 - $15,000
SQSellFeb 10, 2022Mar 3, 202221d$1,001 - $15,000
BRK.BSellFeb 28, 2022Mar 3, 20223d$1,001 - $15,000
ACNBuyFeb 2, 2022Mar 3, 202229d$1,001 - $15,000
VSellFeb 28, 2022Mar 3, 20223d$1,001 - $15,000
ROPSellFeb 28, 2022Mar 3, 20223d$15,001 - $50,000
PEPSellFeb 28, 2022Mar 3, 20223d$1,001 - $15,000
NVSSellFeb 28, 2022Mar 3, 20223d$1,001 - $15,000
MSCISellFeb 28, 2022Mar 3, 20223d$15,001 - $50,000
JPMSellFeb 28, 2022Mar 3, 20223d$1,001 - $15,000
PISellFeb 28, 2022Mar 3, 20223d$15,001 - $50,000
FNVSellFeb 28, 2022Mar 3, 20223d$1,001 - $15,000
ELSellFeb 28, 2022Mar 3, 20223d$15,001 - $50,000
CVSSellFeb 28, 2022Mar 3, 20223d$1,001 - $15,000
KMXSellFeb 1, 2022Mar 3, 202230d$15,001 - $50,000
AAPLSellFeb 28, 2022Mar 3, 20223d$50,001 - $100,000
DISSellFeb 28, 2022Mar 3, 20223d$1,001 - $15,000
VZSellFeb 28, 2022Mar 3, 20223d$1,001 - $15,000
TJXSellFeb 28, 2022Mar 3, 20223d$1,001 - $15,000
NVDASellFeb 28, 2022Mar 3, 20223d$15,001 - $50,000
NKESellFeb 28, 2022Mar 3, 20223d$15,001 - $50,000
NDAQSellFeb 28, 2022Mar 3, 20223d$15,001 - $50,000
MSCISellFeb 3, 2022Mar 3, 202228d$1,001 - $15,000
MSFTSellFeb 28, 2022Mar 3, 20223d$15,001 - $50,000
KAISellFeb 28, 2022Mar 3, 20223d$1,001 - $15,000
IAUSellFeb 28, 2022Mar 3, 20223d$1,001 - $15,000
NTLASellFeb 28, 2022Mar 3, 20223d$15,001 - $50,000
ILMNSellFeb 28, 2022Mar 3, 20223d$15,001 - $50,000
ECLSellFeb 28, 2022Mar 3, 20223d$1,001 - $15,000
CYRXSellFeb 28, 2022Mar 3, 20223d$1,001 - $15,000
CDNSSellFeb 28, 2022Mar 3, 20223d$1,001 - $15,000
BRK.BBuyFeb 3, 2022Mar 3, 202228d$1,001 - $15,000
ASMLSellFeb 28, 2022Mar 3, 20223d$15,001 - $50,000
AMZNSellFeb 28, 2022Mar 3, 20223d$15,001 - $50,000
ACNSellFeb 28, 2022Mar 3, 20223d$15,001 - $50,000
TRNOBuyJan 10, 2022Feb 1, 202222d$1,001 - $15,000
AXHESellJan 27, 2022Feb 1, 20225d$1,001 - $15,000
COSTBuyJan 31, 2022Feb 1, 20221d$1,001 - $15,000
SQSellJan 10, 2022Feb 1, 202222d$1,001 - $15,000
VZBuyJan 27, 2022Feb 1, 20225d$1,001 - $15,000
TJXBuyJan 10, 2022Feb 1, 202222d$1,001 - $15,000
PEPBuyJan 13, 2022Feb 1, 202219d$1,001 - $15,000
NVSBuyJan 27, 2022Feb 1, 20225d$1,001 - $15,000
CVSBuyJan 13, 2022Feb 1, 202219d$1,001 - $15,000
CYRXSellJan 13, 2022Feb 1, 202219d$1,001 - $15,000
BBHSellJan 28, 2022Feb 1, 20224d$1,001 - $15,000
TRNOBuyJan 31, 2022Feb 1, 20221d$1,001 - $15,000
PNCSellJan 20, 2022Feb 1, 202212d$1,001 - $15,000

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See plans All members and how the ranking works

Entries are at the first open AFTER the disclosure date — the earliest any copier could act. The member's own entry was up to 45 days earlier. Disclosed amounts are bands, not sizes; every position is sized at your chosen % of portfolio, which is not how the member sized it. Option purchases are copied as the underlying shares. A filing discloses no strike and no expiry, so an option cannot be mirrored — buying the stock is the closest a reader could get. It is 1.6% of all disclosed buys, but for some members it is a quarter to a half of everything they file, so their figure describes copying the filing rather than what the position itself did. Dividends are treated as reinvested (adjusted closes). Fees and taxes are not modeled. Positions are sized from equity at the time of each entry, so gains compound into later position sizes and most of the account sits in cash between filings. Read the drawdown next to the exposure figures: a portfolio that is mostly cash shows a small whole-portfolio drawdown even when its holdings fell hard. Absolute returns are model outputs, not achievable returns. Past disclosures are no promise of future filings — members stop trading, leave office, or file late in batches.